FREE range production has many positive benefits – exposure to internal parasites is not one of them. This month we discuss one of the challenges facing free range layer farming: intestinal worms. To understand them better, we need to know more about them – their lifecycle, their hosts, their impacts and how best to control…

THE AgriFutures Chicken Meat Program is off to a flying start for 2019, with a change in leadership and a host of new projects in the wings to boost the productivity and efficiency of chicken meat production and deliver safe food and good animal welfare outcomes. Key to determining new program investment for 2019 is…